Question

As summer heats up, Americans turn to ice cream as a way to cool off. One of the questions asked as part of a July 2009 Harris Poll was, “What is your favorite way to eat ice cream?”The study included 2177 U.S. adults.

The accompanying “Favorite Way to Eat Ice Cream” graphic lists in percentages the distributions of the ways both genders prefer to eat their ice cream.
a. Identify the population, the variables, and the type of variables.
b. Construct a bar graph showing the two distributions side by side.
c. Do the distributions seem to be different for the genders? Explain.